Lawsuit alleges Janet Napolitano sexism

The top immigration official in New York City has filed a lawsuit accusing Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano of allowing a female friend who worked at the department to humiliate and mistreat male employees, and alleges the secretary passed over a veteran male agent in favor of promoting a woman.

The lawsuit, which was filed in Washington federal court, came to the fore Friday with reports in both New York tabloids — the Post and the Daily News. It was first reported Wednesday afternoon by Debbie Schlussel, a conservative blogger who has appeared on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” and has written for the Post’s op-ed page.

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The suit, by James Hayes, a special agent in charge of New York City investigations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement federal court accuses Suzanne Barr, ICE’s chief of staff, of regularly harassing male employees. Barr was Napolitano’s chief of staff when the latter was governor of Arizona.

The lawsuit accuses Barr of calling a male ICE agent into her hotel room and asking to have oral sex with him, and says Barr once stole another male ICE official’s BlackBerry and sent a message to his female superior indicating the agent was attracted to his boss. It also says Barr relocated three male agents’ desks to the men’s bathroom at ICE headquarters.

According to the Post and Daily News, Hayes’ suit accuses Napolitano of freezing him out in favor of Dora Schriro,who is now the head of New York City’s Department of Corrections and previously led corrections departments in Arizona and Missouri. Before he took over in New York, Hayes was the director of ICE’s detention and removal operations. Schriro was brought in as a special adviser to Napolitano on those topics, and began replacing Hayes in meetings, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit says Schriro is a close friend of Napolitano’s.

“ICE doesn’t comment on unfounded claims and will respond to Mr. Hayes’s allegations as appropriate through the judicial system,” ICE spokesman Brian Hale said in a statement.

Well, we know why she has men, woman and children felt up and down at the airports. If you are a woman she gets excited and if you are a man she revels in the power she has over you but if you are a child she knows you will get used to the molestation.

um, the problem is that this sounds like most of the government now a days. Who would have thought that we need an agency set up to protect us from the Homeland Security Agency?

Maybe "We the People" can sue her also for treading on our privacy and Constitutional rights. If only we had a good lawyer.........!

Suppose for a minute that Ms. Napolitano were actually genetically male and identified herself as a member of that sub group in every way and he were to hire his wife/mistress/girl friend/daughter to a top position in a department he headed...all h___, would break loose with nepotism and favortism immediately charged and accepted as a fact.How is this different?How does it pass the smell test?

"The lawsuit accuses Barr of calling a male ICE agent into her hotel room and asking to have ******** with him, and says Barr once stole another male ICE official’s BlackBerry and sent a message to his female superior indicating the agent was attracted to his boss. It also says Barr relocated three male agents’ desks to the men’s bathroom at ICE headquarters."

Read Debbie Schlussel.com for the whole story--- "Big Sis" is quite a guy , she got her girlfriend Dora Schriro a sweet job. Dora had limited law enforcement experience. Remember citizens and taxpayers, "Big Sis' recently stated that " only a "few terrorists" came into the USA from open borders with Mexico. She doesn't worry about a dirty bomb, she will be cuddled up in her govt. safety bunker.

Yeah. Perfect. Let's take a caricature and run with it. "The hairy-legged-feminazi-man-hater who probably wants to take your guns away and will do anything else to advance the feminization of the American Man."

Get this particular iteration out there. Get it out there and repeat it on every Fox News show and every talk radio station and insist that it is part of the DEBATE!

It's the return of the murderous cocaine-dealing Black Helicopter Brigade!

Does this story surprise anybody? If this were a Bush Admin. Secretary allowing "guy pals" to run roughshod over female staffers, treating them like dirt, sequestering them in the girlsroom, the media would go absolutely berserk.

As a solid conservative Republican, I find it counterproductive to harp on the possibility of it being driven by some nefarious "lesbian" man hating issue! Why not focus on the irrefutable??? However this woman got into a position of authority, it is clear, if the facts are as stated, that she was seeking to degrade and humiliate male subordinates. Why marginalize your issue by focusing on something that can be easily refuted with a simple denial? The focus should be..... did this woman really do these things? If so, when will she be fired? Did Napolitano know of these transgressions? What did she do about them? Did she ignore this abuse of power? Was Napolitano aware that male subordinates were being treated in this demeaning fashion, if so, what did she do about it?

To focus on it being a potential "lesbian" conspiracy just seems counterproductive!

"Barr was Napolitano’s chief of staff when the latter was governor of Arizona." No, she wasn't. Her last position was Director of Legislative Affairs in the Office of the Governor. She had held that since August 2008. Before that she was Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs.

We don't have dept of justice in this country. The racist Eric holder will "broom" this under the rug along with all the other travesties of justice authored by this criminal Att general... nothing to see here folks.. Move along

Methinks maybe Big Sis prefers Little Sis to Big Brother. Remember what former Governor Ed Rendell said about her appointment-"She's the perfect choice.She has no family, no life,and can devote all her time to the job". Maybe there is "something" we should know about Big Sis.A person in her position may be easily compromised by "something":Remember Barney Frank and his boyfriend at Fannie Mae ?? I heard from an anonymous scource that she ----Well.it's good enough for Harry Reid,isn't it ??

Why don’t they just say it, she hired her girlfriend? Why just not say it. There a pro-gay story almost ever day in the news. This lesbian got power and abused it. Good luck NY! I worked for AZ DOC the only qualification that women has is that she a lesbian.

I think this would be best characterized as an "allegation" rather than "interation". I say this because, there is a Law Suit filed in Federal Court. The judge in that case will determan whether the "iteration" part of your comment is correct or not.

If on the other hand, he should find merit in the "allegation", don't you think that is a very serious charge?

I mean, isn't sexual harrasment and discrimination of ANY kind, unacceptable in today's work place?